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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the section on Suppression of Vice and Crime?
(a) Father Joseph McDougal.
(b) Mayhew.
(c) Rev. William Tuckniss, B.A.
(d) Professor John Dreyfuss.

2. Altogether, what is the approximate number of women and children?
(a) 25 million.
(b) 11 million.
(c) He has no idea.
(d) 6 million.

3. How long did he and his wife have to save to buy the camera?
(a) Two months.
(b) A year or two.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

4. What seemed to be part of the motivation for a street person to perform?
(a) Getting away from lives as things such as chimney sweeps, which is what most of their families were.
(b) To be able to steal from the audience as they were caught up in a performance.
(c) Attention from an admiring audience.
(d) A desire to move into the noble class by earning enough money.

5. How does Mayhew describe the Punch and Judy show?
(a) He does not give it a description.
(b) As a sentimental, comic, tragic two-act play.
(c) As a farcical tragedy.
(d) As a serious morals tale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mayhew say about the photographer's business?

2. What group does Mayhew include among street folk that seems out of place?

3. For whom did the street clown work for before becoming a clown?

4. What does Mayhew say about the education of street folk?

5. What did the magician earn at the time of Mayhew's interview with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was pornography and why did it become illegal in London?

2. What did the people Mayhew called "Punch" do?

3. How did cab drivers obtain their cabs, how many hours did they work, and what did they sometimes do to mitigate their long hours?

4. What did bus drivers own, what did they do and what other work had many of them done? How often did they work and what did their work prevent?

5. What was describe that was similar to modern crack houses, what were they like? What happened to the girl the author wrote about who was lured from home?

6. What did the London City Mission do?

7. Who was the magician Mayhew interviewed and how did he become a magician?

8. What does Mayhew say someone who is unable to work must do and how does he feel about those able to work who won't?

9. What was an ongoing problem for the company from conductors and how did the bus companies combat that problem?

10. Why was the clown Mayhew interviewed depressed and why was he a clown?

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